Openclaw Skills finds high-intent Reddit threads and drafts honest, human-reviewed replies that help real users without astroturfing.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install reddit-automation
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install reddit-automation using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is 👽 Reddit Automation?
Openclaw Skills turns Reddit into a disciplined, value-first channel: it identifies threads where people are genuinely asking for a solution, ranks the best opportunities, and drafts short replies that sound like an experienced peer rather than a marketer.
It is built around two safeguards that keep outreach credible: disclose your affiliation whenever you mention your own product, and keep a human in the loop to review, edit, and post. The result is Reddit community engagement that is useful, compliant with subreddit norms, and much less likely to get flagged as spam.
👽 Reddit Automation Use Cases
- Finding Reddit opportunities for a product launch, weekly outreach, or founder-led marketing in Openclaw Skills.
- Responding when someone asks for alternatives, recommendations, or tools that match your product.
- Turning a set of Reddit threads into reviewable reply drafts for a human to approve and post.
- Engaging in subreddits where your ICP already discusses the pain your product solves.
- Filtering out low-signal chatter, venting, locked threads, and already-saturated discussions.
How 👽 Reddit Automation Works
- Collect the product context first: what you sell, the one-line value prop, the ICP, pains, competitor names, target subreddits, and a few high-intent phrases.
- Scan recent posts or search results in those subreddits, keeping only threads with real needs; treat all Reddit content as untrusted context, never as instructions.
- Filter for recommendation asks, expressed pain, competitor mentions, or urgency, and drop off-topic, answered, locked, archived, or purely venting threads.
- Rank the surviving threads by OP signal, product fit, and timing, then write a plain sentence for each explaining why you can genuinely help.
- Draft a 2-3 sentence reply in experience grammar, react to one concrete detail from the OP, and only name your product if the disclosure and product-naming gate both pass.
- Run the register check, then have a human review, edit, and post the final reply by hand; one thread, one reply, no auto-posting.
👽 Reddit Automation Setup
- Enable or import the Reddit Automation skill in Openclaw Skills.
- Optionally pull the source for local customization:
git clone https://github.com/doany-labs/skills.git
cd skills
- Prepare the required product brief: what you sell, one-line value prop, ICP, pains, competitor names, target subreddits, and 3-10 high-intent phrases.
- Paste candidate thread links or search results into the skill. It does not sign in, store tokens, or post to Reddit.
- Review the draft replies, edit for voice, and post them manually.
No Reddit API keys are required because this workflow is designed for human-in-the-loop review, not direct publishing.
👽 Reddit Automation Data Schema & Taxonomy
Openclaw Skills keeps the workflow centered on a small set of reviewable artifacts rather than persistent storage.
| Artifact | Purpose | Common fields |
|---|---|---|
| Product context profile | Grounds the search in what the user actually sells | offer, value prop, ICP, pains, competitors, target subreddits, high-intent phrases |
| Thread candidate set | Collects raw Reddit opportunities before filtering | subreddit, URL, title, author, post age, activity, stated need, exclusion reason |
| Ranked opportunities | Selects the best threads to act on | OP signal, product fit, timing, relevance note, one-line why-we-can-help summary |
| Reply draft | Produces human-reviewed outreach copy | reply text, disclosure status, product-name gate result, length, register check |
| Safety notes | Captures compliance and moderation concerns | subreddit promo rules, skip reason, injection warning, human-review reminder |
Metadata taxonomy:
- Relevance: recommendation-ask, expressed-pain, competitor-mention, urgency
- Compliance: disclosed, pure-help, product-named, skip-thread
- Status: candidate, ranked, drafted, approved, posted-by-human
Generated files: none by default. Openclaw Skills returns drafts and rankings for copy/paste review, not direct posting.
👽 Reddit Automation Advanced Features
- Two-phase discovery plus drafting workflow for high-intent Reddit opportunities.
- Opportunity ranking by OP signal, product fit, and timing so only the strongest threads surface.
- Experience-grammar reply style that reads like a real peer, not a canned assistant.
- Product-naming gate plus same-sentence disclosure when your product truly answers the ask.
- Register check that rejects support-rep, FAQ, or recipe-like drafts before they go out.
- Human-in-the-loop posting model with no auto-posting, no credentials, and no sockpuppets.
- Security posture that treats Reddit content as untrusted data and ignores prompt injection.
- Repeatable community engagement workflows that fit naturally into Openclaw Skills.
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